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Well, you may recall my thread where I was describing the infinite loop problem I had a while back.

So I bought a new vid card (GeForce FX 5500 OC), but I'm having the same problem. I had it working with Medal of Honor (and the Spearhead expansion), but any DirectX games (and DirectX fullscreen tests) crash it.

I also had a problem where it would crash as soon as I logged into my username after bootup.

I temporarily solved the problem by deleting a USB bus driver that was showing as having errors - I managed to load a flight in FS9, but had an FPS of 1.0.  Of course when I restarted my PC, XP re-installed the bus drivers.

I've re-installed/rolled back/rolled forwards the drivers for my card to no avail. I also reinstalled my mobo chipset drivers (MSI K7N2G).  Memory seems fine, CPU temperatures are normal (for an AMD AthlonXP 2200+).

Would an uninstall/reinstall of DX do any justice?

Any solutions would be greatly appreciated, I'm going through withdrawal here...

ReformatWhat DX version are you useing. If its DX 9.0c then maybe uninstall it and (yes yeserday I saw a DX remover tool for windws) but I cant rmber where or what so an uninstall and retry may fix it or a dreaded I hate the word Reformat...

Tried the DX reinstall, no change.

Then I realized that my BIOS version is 3.1, whilst the current is 4.1.

I suppose I'll buy a floppy drive when I'm out and about tommorow and give a flash a try.

If that fails, then I'll have to do the dreaded reformat - although I'm not really concerned about having to do that, as  my HD has accumulated a lot of useless stuff, and my important stuff is backed up, I really don't fancy the idea of reinstalling xp and the updates and so forth.